Small Business Computing Staff

Wired: The Perfect Small Business Camera? It’s small, it offers pro-style manual controls, a large high-quality sensor and HD video capability. It could be the perfect all-in-one imaging device for small business website managers. “LAS VEGAS — Olympus has announced the rather hot-looking XZ1, an enthusiast compact camera that goes up against the Panasonic LX-5, […]

Entrepreneur: 5 Cool Apps For Road Warriors From an app that lets you log the license plates of bad drivers, to one that helps you create an accident report in the event of a fender bender, these free-or-cheap apps are tailor made for the always-on-the-go small business employee. You live the intrepid life of a […]

PCWorld: Cloudy Forecast For Microsoft Office 365? At the end of last month, Microsoft’s Hotmail Web e-mail service lost data of over 17,000 users for three days, possibly longer. Is this an augur of how reliably Microsoft will operate its much more ambitious Office 365 software-as-a-service offering, Leonhard wonders? “If this is the way Microsoft’s […]

Small Business Trends: Crowd Funding Your Next Entrepreneurial Venture This article outlines the basic concept of crowd funding, links to a recent Wall Street Journal article and to crowd-funding and peer-funding websites. “Over the past few years, as the credit crunch tightened, we’ve all heard horror stories from successful entrepreneurs who had growing businesses but […]

PCWorld: Self-Encrypting Drives Soon To Be The Norm Many small businesses risk enormous expense if they have to notify customers or employees of lost or compromised data. It’s one reason more and more hard drive and solid state drive products will have self-encryption capabilities built in, storage industry experts say. “We’ve seen this coming over […]

Engadget: Buffalo Launches Web-Accessible PogoPlug NAS The new Buffalo NAS devices work like PogoPlug’s disk-less CloudStor products, but have hard disks built in – 1TB for $170, 2TB for $270. Buffalo’s toyed with that newfangled idea of sharing files over the internet once or twice, but today it’s stepping up to the plate, picking up […]

PCWorld: Samsung Launches Windows-based MacBook Air Competitor The new Samsung 9 Series laptops are only .64 inches thick. They have a metalic shell, run Windows 7 and will be priced from $1,599. “What’s a Windows user to do if they covet Apple’s super-slim new Macbook Air? You could always buy the Apple product, install Boot […]

Entrepreneur: Build Your SMB Brand With Social Media It starts with creating branded online presences at sites such as Facebook, but that is just the start. Susan Gunelius goes on to explain four additional steps to completing the job. “Tapping the vast audience of the social Web is a low-cost way to catapult a small-business […]

Small Business Trends: Why Your Small Business Website Doesn’t Sell Products The reasons range from not providing a “conversion path” – a call to action and easy path to perform the action – to not being dynamic enough, to not be easily findable on the Web. “So, what are your big Internet marketing plans for […]

Engadget: Small Business Personal Cloud Storage From Iomega The new Personal Cloud editions of Iomega’s Home Media Network Hard Drives are also ideal for small business backup and file sharing. The product comes in capacities of 1TB ($169) and 2TB ($229). “Finally, a new flavor of Iomega that the EMC fanboys can find palatable. The […]

PCWorld: MSI Shows Off New Laptops With Latest Processors A G series of MSI laptops aimed at gamers includes all the latest and best components, and the C Series is designed for mobility and long battery life. Prices range from $500 to $1,500. “Micro-Star International (MSI) on Tuesday unveiled some of the first laptops and […]

Laurie McCabe’s Blog: How Other SMBs Are Spending On Mobile Technology The major finding of this report from Laurie McCabe’s firm, the SMB Group is that SMB spending on mobile technology will increase at a rate of 17% for the next few years. Does that mean you need to crank up your own spending to […]